Try a little bleach
President Donald Trump has spent months trying to move the country’s focus away from the coronavirus. He’s purposely downplayed the threat it poses to Americans, pushed unscientific treatments and ensured the country that a vaccine would be arriving any day. In pre-recorded remarks at the annual Al Smith Dinner on Thursday night, Trump promised that “the end of the pandemic is in sight, and next year will be one of the greatest years in the history of our country.”
Hahahahaha cool, minutes later – oops Hope Hicks has the COVID, minutes after that, oops Trump has to quarantine, minutes after that, oops Trump has the COVID.
Just this morning, when I woke up, I was thinking sadly it might be days before he tested positive. I wasn’t daring to hope it had already happened, let alone hope for symptoms.
He’ll be fuming that he can’t get out there to shout at crowds of screaming racists. With no masks.
And according to the pool reporter traveling with Trump to and from the debate, “all family members who entered without a mask, members of his administration and other guests were not wearing masks.” A doctor affiliated with the Cleveland Clinic approached the group offering masks if they did not have them. No one in the group put on a mask. In addition, former New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie said on ABC News Friday morning that “no one was wearing masks in the room when we were prepping the President during that period of time, the group was about 5 or 6 people in total.”
I wonder how hard they’re all kicking themselves this morning.
What we do know is that Trump’s attempt to make these final weeks of the election about something other than the coronavirus failed the second he got his positive test back. Cable news will cover his illness — and the people he came into contact with and whether they are also sick — wall to wall for weeks. While Covid-19 was the lead story for most news outlets on most days for the last few months, it is likely to become the ONLY story for the foreseeable future.
Will there be a sympathy vote?
I’m waiting for the conspiracy theories. It wuz the Deep State! It wuz China!…Fauci and Birx!…Antifa!…the Radical Left!…Pelosi!…the Clintons!…
A sympathy vote? Not even a posthumous one, sorry. :P
One good thing about being in Britain; by the time America was waking up to the news I’d already enjoyed several hours of laughter.
AoS, you could have called. When I shared a room in college with a woman from London, her mother frequently woke me up early. I’m used to it. For this, I would have been glad. When I went back to sleep, my dreams would have been joyful.
High five from the antipodes – I saw it as I was going to bed.
I’m a night owl in Los Angeles. I saw it in real time.
Cheered me right up, it did.